Javier, On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I2C drivers that support OF, have both an I2C and OF device ID tables > that are used to fill the supported module aliases. But currently the > I2C core only uses the OF table to match a device with a driver and > the aliases information are always reported in the form i2c:<name>. > > The client->name is used as the name postfix and when booting with OF > this is obtained with of_modalias_node() which drops the compatible > string vendor prefix. > > So for I2C drivers, the I2C and OF device ID tables should be keep in > sync in order to make module auto-loading to work but the I2C device > entries shouldn't have the vendor prefix since that is not reported. > > Before this patch: > > MODALIAS=i2c:ptn3460 > > $ modinfo | grep alias > alias: i2c:nxp,ptn3460 > alias: of:N*T*Cnxp,ptn3460* > > After this patch: > > MODALIAS=i2c:ptn3460 > > $ modinfo | grep alias > alias: i2c:ptn3460 > alias: of:N*T*Cnxp,ptn3460* > > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ptn3460.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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